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1. brap · 1791102425 · focus · HN ↗

   When I first started working with cloud providers it was shocking to discover this feature doesn’t exist, basically anywhere.

   It’s such a basic thing, not having it has to be deliberate to make you accidentally spend more than you’d like.

   1. Terretta · 1791121440 · focus · HN ↗

      Mistaken view.

      I was a member of AWS customer advisory board for years. Two dozen of largest enterprises and unicorns and so on. Nobody wanted the billing department "inline" of systems controls.

      AWS provides all the controls you need to flip the switch yourself, and provides the CDK / TF / etc. patterns for it. Plenty GitHub projects to host your own light switch service.

      Don't relinquish the switch.

      1. devsda · 1791128522 · focus · HN ↗

         Amazon didn't have to build a hosted db, queue, mail or anything else that is value add as long as it provides basic hosted compute, storage and network.

         But it still does and can only claim having those after building them.

         Their customers have been asking for that hard cap feature for a long long time, not building that feature while saying customers have all the tools to build it themselves is just a deliberate misdirection at this point.

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